CSES Announcement:
Recipient of the 2013 GESIS Klingemann Prize for the Best CSES Scholarship

Mar-27-2013

CSES Announcement:
The Full Release of CSES Module 3 is now available for download. The CSES Module 3 Full Release contains 80,163 respondents from 50 election studies. All election studies from CSES Module 3 now appear in the file. An erratum is available that discusses other changes as of this release.

Mar-25-2013

CSES Announcement:
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2013 GESIS Klingemann Prize for the Best CSES Scholarship

The Full Release of CSES Module 2 is now available for download.
As of this release, ten new election studies have been added, bringing the total to 41.
All election studies from CSES Module 2 now appear in the file.
An erratum is available that discusses other changes as of this release.

Jun-26-2007

A new Researcher Contribution is available for download from the Data Center.
The contribution was prepared by Matias Bargsted and is titled "Complementary Macro Level Data for CSES Modules 1 and 2".
Included in the contribution are 43 variables on a wide range of topics not already covered by CSES macro data.

CSES Module 3 is now officially in use. The questionnaire and respondent booklet are available for download from the Collaborators page.

May-22-2006

Data collection for CSES Module 2 is now complete. In order to be included in the CSES Module 2 full release, collaborators must deposit datasets and all related documents on or before December 31, 2006. For more information on depositing a Module 2 dataset, please see the Collaborators page.

An updated version (the fourth) of the
CSES Module 2 Advance Release is now available for download. This release contains six additional election studies - for a total of 32 election studies - among other improvements and additions.

Apr-06-2006

Corrected technical issue that was causing some characters to display incorrectly.

The Data Center now includes a link to an tool for analyzing CSES Module 1 data online.
We would like to thank ASEP and JD Systems in Madrid, who developed this service and are hosting it at no cost to the study.

Oct-24-2005

The Data Center now includes a list of Election Study Links for those that are interested in obtaining the full, original datasets (if available) for election studies that appear in CSES.

Oct-24-2005

The Data Center now includes an area where Researcher Contributions can be downloaded.
Researcher Contributions are files specifically related to CSES which have been prepared by individual researchers and made available to the public.
The first such contribution is the "CSES Module 1 and Module 2 Macro Booklet" (July 5, 2005 version) by Ana Espírito-Santo, Diogo Moreira, André Freire, Marina Costa Lobo, and Pedro Magalhães.

Oct-24-2005

The Results tables have been updated with data from the CSES Module 2 Advance Release of June 29, 2005.

Coverage maps have been added to the pages listing Module 1 Collaborators and Module 2 Collaborators.
The list of Module 2 collaborators was updated in the process, and a list of countries likely to be included in future Module 2 releases was added.
Last, links to the aforementioned lists are now also available from the main Collaborators page - previously they were only accessible from the Data Center.

Sep-21-2005

A link to the European Voter Database has been added to the list of Other Comparative Projects on the About CSES page.

In the download area for the
CSES Module 2 Advance Release, the untranslated version of the questionnaire for the Germany 2002
telephone study is now available.

Dec-17-2004

In the download area for the
CSES Module 2 Advance Release, the Portuguese version of the Portugal
2002 questionnaire is now available, as well as the French, German, and Italian versions of the
Switzerland 2003 phone and mail questionnaires.

An updated version (the second) of the
CSES Module 2 Advance Release is now available for download. This release
contains macro data and eight additional election studies, among other improvements and additions.

Added links to a new
mirror FTP site (accessible from the download page). The CSES Secretariat would like to thank the
Central Archive for Empirical Social Research at the
University of Cologne, Germany [historical hyperlink removed] for hosting a mirror FTP site, thus allowing persons geographically
close to Europe to more quickly download CSES data.

Pippa Norris, from the John F. Kennedy School
of Government at Harvard University, has requested feedback from the CSES user community on her forthcoming
book, "Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behavior." The book examines the role of electoral
rules in shaping voting behavior and political representation, using analyses drawn from the CSES. The book
is due to be published by Cambridge University Press in Fall 2003.Professor Norris can be reached by sending e-mail
to Pippa_Norris@Harvard.edu